Alvin L.A. Horn is a multi award-winning author and an acclaimed spoken word artist/poet/musician. He was born in the Northwest and his poetry, short stories and novels are the byproduct of growing up in the “liberal on the surface” Seattle lifestyle.

Alvin experienced seeing Black people with jobs and had no stereotypical ghettos through the 60’s on up to the present times. He feels his writing was triggered by his mother sending him to the library when she placed him “on restriction, often for daydreaming in school.” He also credits the “little gray-haired Jewish lady, the librarian,” an internment camp survivor for introducing him to the likes of Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. Upon reading the works of Nikki Giovanni Alvin knew he wanted to be a writer of love stories and poetry.

Alvin’s writings decades later have appeared in many periodicals ranging from fiction to erotica and nonfiction. Alvin has self-published novels and has been published by Simon and Schuster and other publishers.

He states, “Some of my erotic writing imagination came from my dad leaving Playboy magazines in a not so secret place. My friends fixated the pictures, but me I just read the stories, most of the time.”

Alvin also had a storied athletic career as an athlete and coach and as a musician; the knowledge and talent from those backgrounds shows in his writings. He has been involved in many art forms from theater, commercial jingle writer, and radio DJ from back in the days when a DJ’s played the album B-side cuts, and radio stations had the evening love-line where he often recited poetry over the air waves.

Born in 1957 in Seattle the Northwest flavors flows through my writing as he lived on a houseboat with perfect views for writing inspiration for many years. When he is not writings, Alvin works in the field of education teaching life-skills, and creative writing, while working with at-risk kids, and school security.

Alvin L.A. Horn on writing:

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“I’m inspired to write and recite the art honest emotions that I have felt or someone may have shared with me at some time in my life. I try to speak for those who would write or say how they feel. I want to remind people of lost thoughts, hidden feelings and create new contemplations and desires whether it about love, money, social issues, family issues, passions and sex. I want people to feel worthy, beautiful, sexy, and informed. I want to write and speak in away, well as Miles Davis said, “It not how many notes you play, it’s when you play them”. I as an artist want to find the right word, instead of a bunch of words just to impress.

“My style of spoken word-poetry is speaking, emotionally rhythmically, much like a blues man guitars weeping of lost love, a saxophone wailing like two loves in throws of passion, or even the street corner preacher begging you to hear his plea.”

“I’m inspired to write and recite the art of honest emotions. I want to remind people of forlorn thoughts, hidden feelings and create new contemplations and desires whether it about love, money, social issues, family issues, or certain passions. I want people to feel worthy, beautiful, informed. I want to write and speak in ways Miles Davis played his trumpet and Miles said, “It not how many notes you play, it’s when you play them”. As an author, I want to write choice words and thoughts to make you think and feel emotions at the right time to bring a tear or smile.”